Helen Laser

I, I just really wanted to work with the actual actors, and I loved directing them.

There was a woman I had worked with before named Helen Laser, who has, uh, narrated lots of audiobooks.

People who listen to this might recognize her voice from other books, and she's just my favorite.

And so I got to hire her and work with her, and I worked with the other actors.

We are moving from a memoir about fiercely earning an education to a fiction book about stealing someone else's hard work and identity, from a protagonist we desperately root for to a protagonist who is objectively a parasite.

You are talking about Yellowface by R.F. Kuang, narrated by Helen Laser.

I am.

And yes, this is perhaps the most complex psychological dynamic on the entire list.

You have that distance again.

Right.

But when you listen to Helen Laser perform June Hayward's inner monologue, the relationship becomes parasitic.

You literally have the villain's voice inside your head.

I'm so

excited because I'm going to be with Andre Santana, Helen Laser, and Sean Patrick Hopkins, who are fantastic audiobook narrators.

And I know Andre is a moderator.

A fellow